Chapter 1: The Bells of Notre Dame

In the streets of Paris, Trader Johann was entertaining several children outside of Notre Dame.

Know that in Paris,

The city awakes

To bells of Notre Dame.

The fisherman fishes.

The baker man bakes

To the bells of Notre Dame.

To the big bells as loud as the thunder.

To the little bells soft as a song.

And some say the soul of,

The city's the toll of,

The Bells… The bells of Notre Dame.

"Listen." Johann said. "They're beautiful, no? So many colors of sound. So many changing moods. Because you know, they don't ring all by themselves."

"They don't?" Johann's young apprentice, Fishlegs asked in mock surprise.

"No you silly boy." Johann said. "Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower lives the mysterious bell ringer. Who is this person?"

"Who?" Fishlegs repeated.

"What is he?" Johann asked.

"What?" Fishlegs asked.

"How did he come to be there?" Johann asked.

"How?" Fishlegs repeated again.

"Hush!" Johann said as he thwacked his apprentice with a ruler.

"Ow!" Fishlegs said.

"Trader Johann will tell you." Johann said as the children gathered close. "It is a tale… The tale of a man… And a monster…"

Dark was the night,

When our tale was begun,

On the docks near Notre Dame…

Valka tried to comfort her crying child.

"Shut it up, will you?" Her husband Stoick said.

"We'll be spotted!" Another man said.

"Hush, little one." Valka said as she tried to sooth her as of yet unnamed son.

For frightened gypsies

Slipped silently under the docks

Near Notre Dame…!

"For gilders for safe passage into Paris." The boatman said when an arrow suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

But a trap had been laid for the gypsies.

And they gazed up in fear and alarm,

At a figure whose clutches were iron

As much as the bells…

"Judge Alvin Frollo." Stoick gasped as Alvin rode up on a black horse.

The bells of Notre Dame… (Keri Elylason!)

Judge Alvin Frollo longed to purge the world of lice and sin. (Keri Elylason!)

And he saw corruption everywhere except within.

As Stoick and their comrade were put in chains, Alvin looked at the travelers as if they were something unpleasant that no one would mind seeing squashed, like slugs.

"Bring these gypsy vermin to the palace of justice." Alvin ordered coolly.

"You there, what are you hiding?" One of Alvin's men said as he grabbed Valka by the arm.

"Stolen goods no doubt, take them from her." Alvin said. "Take them from her."

She ran…

Valka wrenched her arm free and ran as fast as she could from Alvin as she put her arms protectively around her son. She eventually gained some ground when she squeezed herself and her son through a gap in the buildings that the horse couldn't possibly go through. She then arrived at Notre Dame and pounded at the door in fear.

"Sanctuary!" Valka called out. "Please give us sanctuary!"

Unfortunately, Alvin arrived again, and Valka ran off, but Alvin was too quick for her this time and grabbed her son as she tried to pull him back, but Alvin kicked her in the head, and she smashed it into the steps of Notre Dame and never moved again in this life.

Alvin suddenly heard crying from the bundle.

"A baby?" Alvin asked. He wouldn't have thought someone as slim as her would've had a child. He unwrapped the bundle and saw an small child with red-brown hair and forest green eyes. As saw the child he notice a birthmark in the shape of a black dragon on its chest.

"A monster!" Alvin said as he looked around and saw a large well. He prepared to drop the boy down it when Gobber, the Arch-Deacon appeared.

"'STOP!' Cried the Archdeacon!" Johann said to the children.

"This is an unholy demon." Alvin said calmly. "I'm sending it back to Hell where it belongs."

"See here the innocent blood you have spilt on the steps of Notre Dame?" Gobber asked as he held up the gypsy woman.

"I am guiltless." Alvin said. "She ran, I pursued."

"Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt on the steps of Notre Dame?" Gobber asked again.

"My conscience is clean!" Alvin called out.

"You can lie to yourself and your minions!" Gobber countered. "You can claim that you haven't a qualm! But you never can run from, nor hide what you've done from the eyes! The very eyes of Notre Dame!"

Alvin then looked up at all the biblical figures carved into Notre Dame and shuddered.

And for one time in his life of power and control,

Judge Alvin Frollo felt a twinge of fear for his immortal soul…

"What must I do?" Alvin asked.

"Care for the child." Gobber said as he lifted the gypsy woman's body up. "And raise it as your own."

"What?" Alvin asked. "I'm to be settled with this dragon-birth-?" Alvin then recomposed himself. "Very well, but let him live with you in your church."

"Live here?" Gobber asked. "Where?"

"Anywhere." Alvin said. "Just so he's kept locked away where no one else can see."

"The bell tower perhaps." Alvin mused. "And who knows. Our lord works in mysterious ways. Even this foul creature may yet prove one day to be of use to me."

"And Alvin gave the child a cruel name." Johann went on. "A name that means 'Mistake'. Hiccup!"

Now here is a riddle to guess if you can,

Ring the bells of Notre Dame!

Who is the monster and who is the man?

Ring the bells, bells, bells, bells,

Bells… Of… No… Tre… DAME . . .!

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